LANDSCAPING AND URBAN PLANNING PROJECTS - City Planning

MVRDV is poised to reshape the urban fabric of Shanghai‘s West Bund through its ambitious Gate M West Bund Dream Center project. This transformative initiative seeks to revitalize a former cement factory, breathing new life into its industrial shell and creating a vibrant hub for leisure and cultural activities along the iconic Huangpu River. At the core of MVRDV’s desig...

The historic city of Jiaxing is built against the elegant backdrop of the Grand Canal of China. The city’s architecture naturally responds to the strong presence of its twisting bodies of water, and is home to modern marvels, such as the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. Now, the design overhaul of Jiaxing Train Station can be added to the city’s architectural repertoire, while effic...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is developing the city to accommodate the growing population of locals, expats and tourists living in and visiting the capital Muscat. Sultan Haitham City will comprise 19 neighbourhoods over 1,480 hectares of undeveloped land in Al Seeb, a suburb of greater Muscat. It will introduce public spaces and more than 20,000 new homes while ty...

At the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2023, RIOS presents a 100-year masterplan focusing on fostering hyperabundance and growth for Apgujeong in Seoul. Through an ecologically and socially rich architectural framework, the Hyper-Abundant City plan reimagines the future of the neighbourhood as a vibrant ecological tapestry that embraces the Han River and ...

The $2.5 billion Waterfront Brisbane project, designed by FJMT (now FJC Studio) and Arkhefield, will occupy the site of the former Eagle Street Pier restaurant complex. The development comprises two towers of 52 and 44 storeys, a 9,000-square-metre public open space, and a new 280-metre-long riverwalk connecting Waterfront Place and the nearby Riparian Plaza, which was ...

A 3.2-hectare precinct south of the Queen Victoria Market is set to become a three-tower complex with a 1.8-hectare park on the site of the market’s existing car park. The design team comprises NH Architecture, Kerstin Thompson Architects, 3XN Australia, Searle × Waldron Architecture, Openwork, McGregor Coxall, Lovell Chen and Urbis. The $1.7 billion development is ena...

It is a comprehensive initiative designed to improve and revitalize the existing slums in the city. The project focuses on a strategically located coastal plot that encompasses slum settlements and a canal, which starkly highlights the visual disparity between the affluent and the impoverished. Its main purpose is to uplift the living conditions of the less fortunate and...

Boksto 6, in Vilnius, Lithuania, was designed by architect Christina Seilern as a mixed-use development in the heart of the 500-year-old Unesco World Heritage-protected Old Town. Described as a ‘transformative restoration’ Studio Seilern Architects' designs preserve a historic complex of buildings, while fully modernising and elevating them with a series of dynamic inter...

Makoko is not only the largest floating slum in the world. It is also and above all a place where there is a great spirit of community, mutual aid, sharing and work. Unfortunately, its inhabitants are now threatened by pressure from the authorities and climate change and find themselves in the grip of fear and anxiety. Hope for a better and more prosperous future is dimi...

MVRDV's new project marks a transformation in a historic district of Palma de Mallorca, in Spain. Seven buildings, five of which have already been completed, compose a new urban mosaic within the Spanish neighborhood of El Terreno. Each building becomes an architectural object, constructing new urban relationships, using different housing typologies that generate new wa...

The story begins once the resident approach to the garden. There are three major elements: iconic lawn, water feature, and garden path. The water feature cascades down from the upper level as a welcome element creating a sense of discovery and auditory. The water cascade is well designed in relation to the slope of the walkway planned for handicapped, elderly, and pede...

Passage - Visitors head for the Corridor via a 0.6 m-wide, total 27 m-long passage, some taking their time and walking in a straight line, others occasionally looking back to confirm the path they have taken. Incidentally, in our everyday lives, how often do we take a good look at the paths we are taking, or quietly reflect on our recent past? As shortening access to d...

By studying the surroundings and space available, a certain similarity is shared with the site and the ancient Chinese communal architecture of “Siheyuan”. The traditional quadrangle compound houses a central courtyard which is surrounded by houses on each side, akin to how the landscape area is flanked by towering buildings and the Surasak Skytrain station on all four s...

Described as "a new city in America", the new plans were announced on Telosa's official website and BIG's website. The Telosa masterplan is aimed to "set a global standard for urban living, expand human potential, and become a blueprint for future generations." Although there are a few renderings released on the official website, the first rendering gives a clue of what...

In 2021, Saudi Arabia announced plans for THE LINE, a 170 km belt of communities connected without the need for cars or roads. His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Chairman of the NEOM Board of Directors, has now unveiled the designs of THE LINE, offering a more detailed look into the most important characteristics of the world’s first zero-gravity ve...

Once a decrepit industrial zone, Bagualing is marked to become a new hub for financial technology headquarters and R&D companies in the Special Economic Zone’s latest development plans. The high-traffic main venue “IN space” is strategically placed on the lower floors, secured with greatest accessibility – from basement, ground floor and second floor via link bridges. I...

On behalf of the management company Primonial REIM France, Sefal Property commissioned aKagreen to green the asset and thus participate in improving the environmental performance of Vitalys. Respecting residents' requests with a project that upholds their values: this is the concept of this green project by aKagreen, which takes up the challenge magnificently and sees ...

“Feeling the Energy” makes use of 500 meters of digitally bent copper pipe to create a sensorial path where people can explore different forms of sustainable energy production and consumption. The project is developed for Plenitude as part of the Design Week’s INTERNI Re. Generation exhibition. The copper is provided by KME, one of the world's largest producers of this m...

Oceanix Busan is being developed by UN-Habitat and the Busan Metropolitan City and designed by floating cities company Oceanix in collaboration with partners including BIG and Samoo. UN-Habitat calls Oceanix Busan "the world's first prototype floating city" and aims for it to provide a model for coastal cities facing threats from flooding and rising sea levels due to cl...

Lakeview sits on land that was once home to the Lakeview Generating Station, a large coal-fired energy plant. After 50 years of industrial use, this land could use a facelift both economically and environmentally. Here’s how the development will regenerate the land. The Lakeview Village development combines high-quality housing options for multiple lifestyles and life s...

A former primary school was once situated here. The school moved away many years ago as a result of the urban modernization, and the disappearing of the traditional market place cultures in nearby communities. In order to reactivate local communities in Tianhebei District at the same time combine historical context and urban trend culture. Digital trend brand ifanr combi...

Arkins Promenade is part of a new, mile-long riverfront pedestrian corridor that will run between 29th and 38th streets next to the city’s Five Points and River North Art Districts. Designed by Denver-based firms Tres Birds and Wenk Associates, the project features a 400-foot, steel-based walkway that uses reclaimed telephone poles as structural supports, raising it to 2...

With its 45-metre height, Milan’s Monte Stella is the only real presence of geographical scale in a city devoid of landscape – no rivers or seas, no mountains or hills. The Navigli themselves are too narrow and full of buildings to evoke the large scale. Built starting in the late 1940s – with the rubble from World War II bombings, as well as a lot of material from the S...

This proposal identifies a few functional specifications and articulates the space into three main areas, differentiating the central pedestrianized area from the adjacent areas that can be accessed by cars. The central part is the core of the project, it directly accesses the opposite railway station from a car-free area. This pedestrian square becomes the gateway to th...

Snøhetta has been announced competition winner for the design of Eliel and Asema square in Helsinki. The project, dubbed ‘klyyga,’ or ‘the crossing,’ will soon bring new life to the downtown central hub of the finnish capital, and is designed together with local finnish partners Davidsson Tarkela Oy and WSP. Reconnecting the two city grids with a vibrant new plaza and ci...

The project is located in the northern suburb of Nantong, Jiangsu, China, with a total construction area of 4552.8m². It took four months from concept design to final completion. The project includes 3 buildings： a Comprehensive Service Center called "Gather Grain into Granary"， an Exhibition Hall of Rural Life and a public restroom renovation. Considering the project i...

In 2016, the airport operator Finavia launched a design competition for theexpansion and modification of terminal 2.The competition task included relocating the departures and arrivals halls to a new building so that the existing departures hall of terminal 2 could be turned into gate areas. The 43,000 SqM departures and arrivals building comprises two distinct volumes;...

Architecture office Kaleidoscope Nordic introduces ‘powered by ulsteinvik’, a concept city proposal in Norway that utilizes local natural resources to generate a pleasing environment for people to live and work in. The future-oriented project takes shape as a ‘smart hub’ with urban functions and various multifunctional facilities right next to the sea. The proposal estab...

Overlooking the olympic sports expo and the Qiantang river, the landmark commercial complex is sited in the core area of the Qianjiang Century city, and draws inspiration from the concept of ‘setting sail.’ The collection of workspace towers suggests an array of billowing sails, celebrating the riverfront site and symbolic of ‘riding a wave of prosperity.’ The podium rec...

Called Lakhta Centre II, the 150-storey building would also have the highest occupied floor in the world at 590 metres. The tallest building in the world is the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and has a top floor height of 585 metres. Lakhta Centre II would sit alongside the Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of ...

This new apartment building is located on a site previously occupied by a 1920s, two-storey parking garage. The six-storey building comprises basement parking, duplex townhouses, lateral apartments, and a penthouse with its own roof garden. Mediating between the different sizes of the surrounding structures, the inserted volume both respects the scale of the street and r...

Turin is now host to Europe’s largest hanging garden, set high above the concrete modernist curves of the Fiat company’s Lingotto Factory. A collaboration between Turinese architect Benedetto Camerana and the botanist Cristiana Ruspa, La Pista 500 is a new public space and urban oasis for Turin. It’s joined by Casa 500, a dedicated exhibition space within the Pinacoteca ...

Copenhill was conceived as an original urban hybrid, combining its core function as a power plant with a park, hiking trail, cafes, the world’s tallest climbing wall and—of course—a 400m ski slope. “The facility becomes part of the city and redefines the relationship between production and recreation,” David Zahle of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) told ArchiExpo e-Mag...

EDEN is designed to resemble a spine blade: simple vertical rectilinear plains with slim windows form the blade with generous garden balconies situated in between. This approach grants privacy for each of the twenty apartments and allows for a generous central living space that forms the heart of each residence. The unconventional concrete walls are moulded with a topogr...

The problem of the Mega Block is two-fold: 1. It is anti-urban – it does not produce a walkable city and at the same time diminishes the quality of urban spaces. 2. It is high-carbon – its dependence on cars pollutes the air while produces traffic congestions. Once a city is built based on such inhuman spatial scale, it would be very difficult to remodel it into a livabl...

The no.2 bridge is located next to the government of Longgang Central District, connecting Vanke Square Commercial Complex with World Trade Department Store Square, Tianyu Phase II residential area, commercial pedestrian street and so on.Located above Dezheng Road and across Longxiang Avenue, the bridge is a two-story landscape corridor connecting multiple platforms.The ...